The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850 (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain)

by Adam Fox (Editor), Daniel Woolf (Editor), Daniel Woolf (Editor), Adam Fox (Editor)

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  2003

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  Discussing the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the Early Modern period, this text examines English, Scottish and Welsh oral culture to provide a pan-British study, covering tradition, memories of the civil war, mechanics for settling debts and more.